The Case of the Missing Servant
byOne day, out of the blue, I got an email asking me whether I would be interested in featuring The Case of the Missing…
Asian Fiction
Q and A / Slumdog Millionaire
byThis is the book on which the movie Slumdog Millionaire was made and is one of the few books that I am reading after…
A River Sutra
byI picked up A River Sutra from Eloor Library because the blurb on the back of the book made me feel it is an…
Ah! Kabul!
byAs promised in my previous post, I am adding this poem “Kabul”, by the 17th-century Persian poet Saib-e-Tabrizi. This is one translation of the…
9 A Thousand Splendid Suns
byKhaled Hosseini’s second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, is a story of two women and their lives in Afghanistan over the past 30 years…
Between the Assassinations
byThere is a general consensus among reviewers that Indian writing is depressing. Well, there is plenty of pretty upbeat Indian writing out there these…
The White Tiger
byThe White Tiger by Aravind Adiga has been getting rave reviews all over the blogosphere plus it is a Man Booker winner, so I…